Peter Roebuck quotes

“On a train from Shimla to Delhi, there was a halt in one of the stations. The train stopped by for few minutes as usual. Sachin was nearing century, batting on 98. The passengers, railway officials, everyone on the train waited for Sachin to complete the century. This Genius can stop time in India!”
-- Peter Roebuck

#Usual Quotes #India Quotes #Genius Quotes

“There is nothing in cricket more calculated to raise a laugh than the sight of some determined and serious man under a spiralling catch.”
-- Peter Roebuck

#Men Quotes #Sight Quotes #Serious Man Quotes

“Richard Hadlee has the appearance of a rickety church steeple and a severe manner which suggests that women are not likely to be ordained yet.”
-- Peter Roebuck

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“When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don't know where I am right away. I'll go to the window, and it doesn't help there either, especially if you're in an anonymous strip and it's the usual Victoria's Secret, Gap, Chili's, Applebee's.”

“I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere.”

Source : Antonia Fraser (1977). “Quiet as a Nun”

“The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential condition of such a strategy is that the drain on him should be disproportionately greater than on oneself.”

“How much do they be paying you?" he asked mellowly. "The usual salary. A little more than they think I'm worth and a little less than I think I'm worth.”

“We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.”

“Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset.”

“England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.”

Source : Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

“What's the point of being an Australian guy traveling through India if you are going to go to India to meet other Australians?”

“Genius can never despise labour.”

Source : Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire”

“I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.”